ISIS, TOMORROW. THE LOST SOULS OF MOSUL

FILM : Isis, Tomorrow traces the months of war through the voices of the children of militiamen trained to become suicide bombers, but also of their victims and those who fought them. Today, fighters’ descendants are children who bear the burden of having been educated to kill their neighbours and to make the ideology survive so that it can be reborn from the ashes of the fathers. Isis, Tomorrow follows the destiny of the surviving families of the fighters in the complexity of the post-war period, a post-war time of marginalisation and stigma, in which battle blood leaves room for daily revenge and retaliation, for violence as the only response to violence.....
"Isis has lost Mosul. But has it been really defeated? Or does real war – for those who have endured it and those who survive – begin right the day after a proclaimed victory? This film stems from the questions which became more and more insistent every day of the months of fighting in Mosul and which accompanied us in the strenuous phases of the post-war period: what is necessary to do to save the hundreds of thousands of children raised for three years under Isis? How can we prevent these children from being the breeding ground for tomorrow’s terrorism?
Director: Francesca Mannocchi, Alessio Romenzi
Production: FremantleMedia Italia (Gabriele Immirzi), Rai Cinema, CALA Filmproduktion (Martina Haubrich), Wildside (Lorenzo Gangarossa)
Running Time: 80’
Language: Iraqi Arabic
Country: Italy, Germany
Screenplay: Francesca Mannocchi, Alessio Romenzi
Cinematographer: Alessio Romenzi, Francesca Mannocchi
Editor: Emanuele Svezia, Sara Zavarise
Music: Andrea Ciccarelli
Sound: Stefano Bari (D-Color)